Uploaded December 2014 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
THE BOOK IS HERE, with hundreds of new definitions: bit.ly/3z1RYvH Available in hardcover, ebook, and audiobook, read by the author.
“The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.” –L.P. Hartley
Looking at old photos, it's hard not to feel a kind of wanderlust—a pang of nostalgia for times you've never experienced. The desire to wade into the blurred-edge sepia haze that hangs in the air between people who leer stoically into this dusty and dangerous future, whose battered shoes are anchors locked fast in the fantasy that none of it risks turning out any other way but the way it happened.
THE DICTIONARY OF OBSCURE SORROWS dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows is a compendium of invented words written by John Koenig. Each original definition aims to fill a hole in the language—to give a name to emotions we all might experience but don’t yet have a word for. Follow the project, give feedback, suggest an emotion you need a word for, or just tell me about your day.
Email the author: obscuresorrows@gmail.com
Facebook facebook.com/pages/The-Dictionary-of-Obscure-Sorrows/137197489655526
Twitter @ObscureSorrows twitter.com/obscuresorrows
THE BOOK IS HERE, with hundreds of new definitions: bit.ly/3z1RYvH Available in hardcover, ebook, and audiobook, read by the author.
“The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.” –L.P. Hartley
Looking at old photos, it's hard not to feel a kind of wanderlust—a pang of nostalgia for times you've never experienced. The desire to wade into the blurred-edge sepia haze that hangs in the air between people who leer stoically into this dusty and dangerous future, whose battered shoes are anchors locked fast in the fantasy that none of it risks turning out any other way but the way it happened.
THE DICTIONARY OF OBSCURE SORROWS dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows is a compendium of invented words written by John Koenig. Each original definition aims to fill a hole in the language—to give a name to emotions we all might experience but don’t yet have a word for. Follow the project, give feedback, suggest an emotion you need a word for, or just tell me about your day.
Email the author: obscuresorrows@gmail.com
Facebook facebook.com/pages/The-Dictionary-of-Obscure-Sorrows/137197489655526
Twitter @ObscureSorrows twitter.com/obscuresorrows
